Scott Walker + Sun O))): Soused (4AD)

Graham Reid | Oct 27, 2014 | <1 min read

Scott Walker + Sun O))): Brando

Scott Walker's setting a breathless pace
these days: it was usually a decade between albums but after The
Drift (06) just six years before Bish Bosch and now only
two years since that typically demanding, commanding art music.

For
newcomers, London-based American-born Walker was the romantically
brooding baritone on Walker Brothers pop hits in the Sixties, moved
towards European music, and in the past three decades has
intermittently released challenging albums of declamatory
operatic-like (melo)drama in imaginative sonic settings with often
impenetrable lyrics. Albums either grip you vice-like or you snicker
at their pretension and often comic portentousness.

I'm mostly among his admirers and this
– comparing only to his own work, of course -- is quite something.

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